n. - A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
n. - A net for confining a woman's hair.
n. - A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
n. - Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
n. - An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire.
n. - An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
n. - A beam compass. See under Beam.
v. t. - To entangle, as in a net; to catch.
v. t. - To confine; to hamper; to shackle.